Yul Bryner Ramses II Part 4

From the last time we wrote, it was work till 2 am last night. This evening, right after work, delve right into correcting the look on the face that you do not see till we shoot the photo and zoomed in..

From the last blog post, I noticed from expanding it at 15 Megapixels accorded by the Canon 50D with the EF 17-40 F4L USM lens, superb at 40mm or 75mm equivalent in 35mm mode in macro from 28cm....every nook and cranny cannot escape when shot at ISO 400 and F10.

So, I too some white, dilute it down to less than 10% and touch up the upper cheeks to reinforce the contrast with the rest of the skin colour to give it a brighter sheen. I also added some green to widen the shaven face beard are and also to darken the underneath of the lip area at the chin, this is to give the chin a more pronounced protrusion look that is prominent on the square jawed actor's facial features that I grew to love in this movie, which I have watch like more than 20 times.

I gave a super light wash of brownish black to form the edges of the lips and the lip partition line and when dry, dabbed in the 50% dilute Vermillion and Purple mix. I added light skin tone and white to the lip colour mix and dab some onto the top part of the lower lip to give it some 3D look and to enhance the shadows and simulate wet glistening. I also took some white toned down with a lot of water to round off the pupils a little bit more.

Whoa....walla, the face is now done, and time to work on the neck. I kind of like what I see here. Better stop before we overdo it. The tendency for perfectionists is to over perfect what is perfect and break it! This is something we all have to learn to do, especially me.

Double check on the facial pictures, I use a photo from the King and I.

Cheers,

Norman